Board Thread:Pokémon Help/@comment-31398341-20171026040947/@comment-31857924-20180322161425

Robepriority wrote: Alright, so let's assume that Shuckle has *0* attack and special attack, and a pokemon has 100 attack.

Powersplit will cut  it down to 50.

You've essentially burned the pokemon.

Nice, except  confagurius can do that and  set up.

Except toxapex can do that and have recovery.

Except Arcanine can do that and stack with intimidate. You can put leftovers on shuckle to get rid of the recovery issue, nothing will do that much damage to you so you should be able to heal it all. Shuckle can also use sticky web, making it easy for any sweeper you have to destroy the other team. You also forget, your raising your own power. Its not just a burn, if you use it on a physical sweeper, then you essentally destroy their attack. Say you use it on a marshadow or a aegislash, you just destroyed their attack, marshadow then just becomes a rubber bullet, fast, but no power. Shuckle has rollout as a move, the more you use it, the more powerful it gets. Last but not least, Arcanine and Confagurius are not as tanky as shuckle, even toxapex isn't as tanky. I believe there is at least a 100 base stat difference between toxapex and shuckle